the whole number of inhabitants is so great as twenty six and a half millions.
[The writer regrets his inability to furnish the Chinese characters promised on page 1.—The M.S. of them, besides some lithographed plates and other papers, of which use would have been made in this publication, were lost during the Vandal-like proceedings of the Hongkong Government for what was deemed a libel on its Lieutenant Governor in 1859.]
[The following letter gives a concise abstract of the foregoing Notes of travel.]
To the Editor of the North-China Herald.
Dear Sir,—The following brief particulars of a journey from Ningpo, via Teen muh san, and the Confucian Pass in Anwhuy Province, to this place may be interesting to your local readers.
We (Dr. Macgowan and myself) left Ningpo in a boat on the night of the 24th ult., and early the following morning reached Kongkēaou, a small village in a southerly and westerly direction, some 60 or 70 le from Ningpo, where we took to the chairs carried with us, and proceeded by the way of the Heaven Struck Rock and Ningkong jow to Haou-lung, where we slept in an Ancestral Hall. That day we travelled, somewhat circuitously, 93 le—though the course and distance made good was only 7 miles N. and 7 miles W.
March 26th—From Haoulung to Hō pé chee, where we again slept in an Ancestral Hall.—Distance travelled 100 le.—Course good, S. 27 miles—W. 12.
March 27th—From Hó pē chee to the Poosan monastery.—Distance travelled 86 le.—Course good, S. 13 miles— W. 18.
March 28th—From the Poosan monastery, by the way of the Iron washing Beds and Smelteries, to the hien city of Singchong—taking up our quarters at the Tow va sze or Temple of the Great Buddha, a demi idol 51 feet high from its seat, cut out of the solid rock. Distance travelled 87 le.—Course good, S. 1 mile— W. 11 miles.
March 29th—Sunday,—kept as a day of rest.
March 30th—Travelled half a day to the district city of Dzing, where we slept at a monastery out side. Distance 40 le.—Course good, N. 5 miles—W. 7.
